Photo Quotes Archive

"'So, how long did you spend photographing on your vacation?' 'About a minute and a half, and that was only because I had two 30-second exposures.'"

"If you take pictures does that make you an art thief?"

"I take pictures like Jimmy Page, and I play guitar like Ansel Adams."

"Everyone has a photographic memory. Some just don''t have the film."

"A professional photographer is invited to dinner by some friends and is showing some award-winning photos. During the dinner the hostess comments 'Wow, these photos are really amazing! You must have a very good camera!'. The photographer replies: 'Definitely. By the way, this dish is excellent. You must have a very good pot'."

"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."

"When you buy a camera, your a photographer. But when you buy a piano, you own a piano."

"'Ornithologists concluded that migratory birds take hundreds of naps as they fly; they also practice unilateral eye closure, in which one eye closes, thereby permitting half the brain to sleep.' Is this what happens when photographers close one eye to look through a viewfinder? If so, they might be operating with only half a brain. Perhaps that explains..."

"Concentrate on how the digital image is emaxed conceptually. Fortunately, this is easy to grasp: The camera's chip (invented by Fr. Fry) comprises a new element, Creatium (C), not to be confused with the speed of light (C). When these collide, they excite multitudes of particles known as morons (m). At critical mess, the nuclear bisons -- agitated beyond control -- stampede into isodopes, providing stuff-stash outsource integration with plug-and-play, point-and-shoot, drag-and-drop convenience. In short, picture emergence (as we experts say) is a result of morons excited by light/creatium, or e=mc(squared)."

"I just got this new camera. It's very advanced - you don't even need it."

"...photographers who carry 60 pounds of equipment up a hill to photograph a view are not suffering enough, although their whining causes enough suffering among their listeners. No, if they really expect us to respect their search for enlightenment and artistic expression, in [the] future they will drag the equipment up the hill by their genitals and take the view with a tripod leg stuck through their foot."

"Today's photographs of Half Dome require an extra stop of exposure because the amount of light reflecting off it has been reduced by the absorption of so many negatives throughout history."